Rescue Dawn

Last night we watched Werner Hertzog's "Rescue Dawn",

starts off with great explosions



Christian Bale
is great

Walking around (like a record)

I'm slowly putting all my videos on Youtube, and it just makes me realize I haven't made one in more than a year... Anyway, here's Lichtplein from 2005

My favourite avatar is walking around the ideas for the Lichtplein project in Eindhoven.
the music is "La Strada" by the lovely Methadone Kitty (thanks Thanos! )

Printing more buildings

Here's two more Second Life buildings that arrived in First,
Terraform House

and Idea
3D prints thanks to the nice people at PV Engineering Co. once again

Goodbye P130

Monday Ponti Chair

Well obviously it wont be a whole Ponti week, because I'm not THAT hot for Ponti, but here's some flotsam and jetsam I picked up while searching for the churches...

The superleggera chair is an obvious one so I wont post it, but this one here looks like she's wearing tights or stockings or something and she's definetly makin an effortI thought this was real cute until I realised its Ponti+ Fornasetti, and it still looks cute but perhaps I've seen enough Fornasetti for a lifetime

this newspaper covered little bureau is definetly interesting, maybe its Fornasetti too?
and these chair-table looking things are not Ponti but made from original Ponti furniture which Martino Gamber cut-up during the last Design Miami

Sunday Ponti Church

It was summer of 1979, we were driving in my dad's khaki green Mercedes in southern Italy to catch the boat back to Greece after a trans-europe not so express, the car stereo was probably playing "I will Survive" or "No More Tears" and we thought everybody was a mafioso.

Suddenly I saw this building off the autostrada, and it was just the most exciting thing I had seen. My parents said : "It looks like a church", and I thought "It looks fabulous".Later in life I realized that this was Gio Ponti's Cathedral in Taranto, and today browsing through some books I found it again.

Next to it in the book (a vintage A+U) was another great church by Ponti, slightly less published, the San Franscesco in Milan.

I've always been obsessed by Ponti's polygon window phase, like in the De Bijenkorf which I blogged ages ago

some of the pics from this Ponti link

Recently in some magazines (and books)

Obviously working too much is bad for your blog, today I'm sick and had to skip university so this is my pathetic attempt to keep posting, though I promise I will resume soon
Spanish arch mag arq./a had a nice article though as usual I cant read it
The DAMDI publishing came out with this book on furniture and all things "body"

they featured Soft Ruin which hasn't been published much, if at all
PlayGround, a collaboration with Eleni Kostika, an installation that survived only 1 night before being torn to pieces... this was supposed to be a surveilled public sculpture project etc etc
and a pretty extensive publication of the Blue Wave project and all it's extensions



check out Bodyscape for nice projects by Juergen Mayer H, Julien De Smedt and many moreoh and here's a couple of months of my Velvet column,

Printing Buildings

Models being printed with ZCorps' great zPrinter450, courtesy the nice people at PV Engineering and 3dprinters.gr/

Last Night in Athens

It was the second round of ReMap KM openings. I got there late just in time for Amie Dickes' weird and wonderful performance at lovely Javier Perez
which ended in tears and destruction and smiles



on the second floor of Javier you can see sexy Marcus Knupp paintings
in the back an outdoor AVAF mural
later on we went to Amateur Polish disco with Agustin Perez Rubio and Tolo (with great Konstantin Grcic studying his Polish beer in the background)
"How do I look" Javier with Angelo
but then everybpdy was too busy having fun to take photos